Apple USB SuperDrive

Apple USB SuperDrive

Overview

The sleek, compact USB SuperDrive.

Everything you need in an optical drive.

Whether you’re at the office or on the road, you can play and burn both CDs and DVDs with the Apple USB SuperDrive. It’s perfect when you want to watch a DVD movie, install software, create backup discs, and more.

Take it anywhere.

Only slightly bigger than a CD case, the Apple USB SuperDrive slips easily into your travel bag when you hit the road and takes up little space on your desk or tray table when you’re working.

The essence of simplicity.

You’ll never have to worry about lost cables with the Apple USB SuperDrive. It connects to your MacBook Pro with Retina display*, MacBook Air, iMac, or Mac mini with a single USB Type-A cable that’s built into the SuperDrive. There’s no separate power adapter, and it works whether your Mac is plugged in or running on battery power.

Piece of Scat!

I probably should have known better than to buy this product about a year ago, after reading the substantial number of really bad reviews. But, as a long time
I probably should have known better than to buy this product about a year ago, after reading the substantial number of really bad reviews. But, as a long time fan of Apple products, I convinced myself that mine would not be a lemon. For about 50 uses (mostly importing music CDs into my iTunes library), it worked flawlessly, and I thought those reviews were incorrect.
Now, every time I import a CD the music skips forward in high speed zzzzts. So, I'm in the market for another drive and will not be buying another version of this from Apple. Sad that after all the bad reviews there is no (apparent?) response from the company.
If anyone knows of a reliable drive, from another company, please post here.

Written by Steve C from SEATTLE

Apr 24, 2016

2244 of 2314 people found this useful

Is this review useful?Piece of Scat!

1.0 out of 5 stars

Love Apple, Hate the SuperDrive

This is by far the worst designed apple product. The drive is designed with a slit opening to feed in disk and no mechanical way to eject. This would be ok if t
This is by far the worst designed apple product. The drive is designed with a slit opening to feed in disk and no mechanical way to eject. This would be ok if the drive function correctly but that is rare. Frequently the drive becomes obsessed with trying to process a disk and prevents the disk from ejecting, forcing you to wait 5, 10, or 15 minutes for it to decide its done with the disk. Biggest waste of money I've ever spent. I love all my other apple product, but this one I'm considering running it over with a tractor.

Written by danniel G from Henderson

Jun 4, 2016

1787 of 1843 people found this useful

Is this review useful?Love Apple, Hate the SuperDrive

1.0 out of 5 stars

awful

How many blank discs does it take to burn just ONE? Well, if you're using the Apple USB Superdrive, the answer is six, apparently. I've had this drive on two
How many blank discs does it take to burn just ONE? Well, if you're using the Apple USB Superdrive, the answer is six, apparently. I've had this drive on two computers, a Mac Pro at work and another at home and it never goes smoothly. Either it can't read the disc, or says it can't get information fast enough or the drive doesn't show up. I am beyond frustrated at Mac's ongoing attempt to dictate to its users what it feels is best for them. I have to be able to burn discs for work, and with the latest driveless Mac Pros and the USB Superdrive, it's an exercise in futility. Maybe I'll find a six-for-one sale on blank discs. Ridiculous.

Written by Jay S from Richmond

Jul 31, 2016

1539 of 1590 people found this useful

Is this review useful?awful

4.0 out of 5 stars

So far, OK

It may be too soon to review, I will update if things change. I bought this today (even though I was leary with all the bad reviews). It was a necessity to me
It may be too soon to review, I will update if things change. I bought this today (even though I was leary with all the bad reviews). It was a necessity to me as I replaced my mid-2011 iMac with a new one which of course, does not have the CD/DVD drive built in like my prior one did. And with my new car no longer having a CD slot, I had to get something. I imported 2 CDs and the first one went into the slot flawlessly, copied all songs the same as the original. The 2nd CD had a bit of a hard time going into the slot, it was as if it was being rejected. Finally it accepted it, and copied as with the first one. I have to admit that once in awhile I had a similar problem with my original iMac so I'm hoping that this is the case with this one. I wanted to get an Apple product, it will go back if I have serious problems. Several people commented that the Apple logo goes on the bottom, to me it was fairly obvious as the design seems it would be the base, and not on the top. As for the eject, really easy as the eject symbol appears after it is downloaded, rather than having to go to the iTunes menu to find the eject command.

Written by Joanne Y from Liverpool

Sep 9, 2019

1 of 1 people found this useful

Is this review useful?So far, OK

1.0 out of 5 stars

Piece of junk

As an Apple devotee of many years, this is singly the worst device they have ever produced- at least that I have used. I have tried 3 of them, and none work any
As an Apple devotee of many years, this is singly the worst device they have ever produced- at least that I have used. I have tried 3 of them, and none work any better. They don't connect easily to either a MacBook Pro or iMac. Requires restarting computer over and over to get the player to be recognized.. They work intermittently, and just a complete waste of time and money.

Written by Alan H from Clearwater

Aug 28, 2019

2 of 2 people found this useful

Is this review useful?Piece of junk

1.0 out of 5 stars

No Offset Correction

It is not possible to discover the wright offset correction of this drive and apple doesn't reveal wich it is. It does mean it is impossible to rip CDs with 100
It is not possible to discover the wright offset correction of this drive and apple doesn't reveal wich it is. It does mean it is impossible to rip CDs with 100% accuracy. So the drive became useless for me.

Answer

It plays dvds which have commercially available movies printed on them. I have hundreds of movies a
It plays dvds which have commercially available movies printed on them. I have hundreds of movies as well as season series. All NTSC format. I also print my own movies in NTSC format.
However, it doesn’t seem to read a dual layer disk. So a very long movie may only play the first layer. If the movie is on two disks. You’re fine. It’s rare movies are so long to require a dual layer disk

Best Answer:

Like the previous USB SuperDrive this one is only designed to work with computers that do not have o
Like the previous USB SuperDrive this one is only designed to work with computers that do not have one built in. It only works with Mac mini, Macbook Air and Macbook Pro with Retina.